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WHAT MR. DARWIN SAW. 



TIERRA DEL FUEGO. 



often try to imagine what pleasure in life some of the lower 

 animals can enjoy : how much more reasonably the same 

 question may be asked concerning these barbarians ! At 

 night five or six human beings, naked, and scarcely protected 

 from the wind and rain of this tempestuous climate, sleep on 

 the wet ground, coiled up like animals. Whenever it is low 



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A FUEGIAN FKAST. 



water winter or summer, night or day they must rise to 

 pick shell- fish from the rocks; and the women either dive 

 to collect sea-eggs or sit patiently in their canoes, and with 

 a baited hair-line, without any hook, jerk out little fish. If 

 a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale dis- 

 covered, it is a feast; and such miserable food is assisted by 

 a few tasteless berries and fungi. 



